Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a preacher.
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- noun The office of a preacher.
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- noun The role or office of a
preacher .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1726 he resigned his preachership at the Rolls.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Establishment of a university chapel and preachership; my selections of preachers; good effects of their sermons upon me.
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The preachership having been established, I sent invitations to eminent clergymen along the whole gamut of belief, from the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese to the most advanced Protestants.
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My selections for the preachership during the years of my presidency were made with great care.
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But it seemed to me that we had no right, under our charter, to give such prominence to any single religious organization; and I therefore proposed to the donor that the endowment be applied to a preachership to be filled by leading divines of all denominations.
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Establishment of a preachership; my suggestions regarding it accepted; Phillips Brooks preaches the first sermon, 1875; results of this system.
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The preachership was instituted in 1581, and among those who held the office were John Donne, afterwards Dean of St. Paul's, who preached the first sermon when the chapel was new.
Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868
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Or he might have obtained a professorship or a court preachership and, like
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Leslie Stephen 1868
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Jeremy Collier, who was turned out of the preachership of the Rolls, was a man of a much higher order.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Afterwards the Arch - bishop assured me of his assistance towards procur - ing either the preachership or the mastership of the Charter-house, where I had gone to school.
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